"We are God's sheep." wow, great analogy...

[kahljorn]

That is entirely irrelevant, you are arguing semantics. If it wasn't christianity you would be complaining about some other religion, let's call it buddhism. It might not necessarily even be about the idealogy of the religion, just the fact that it has influenced your life and you are pussy-whipped by it(In fact it's more of it's overbearing Historical influences that you dislike). Go ahead and try to deny if Christianity wasn't the dunce, there wouldnt be another. Christianity is just a cancer that needs to be cut, and once removed life will be happy and there will be no suffering? That is so much better than Believing God will make everything A-Okay!
The faccets of my argument still apply, despite semantic overtures.



By the way, I think your "Hate" is misdirected at the church when it would be more happily applied to the British Monarchy, those mary magdolin motherfuckers. Damn I love saying that.
Oh yea, and the fact that you can base most of your "intelligence" off the fact that you can derail christianity "Really well" would tend to include the fact that you are active participants in their religion, in fact, most arguments you would make against it I'm sure somehow fit into your personal philisophy of the World. Learning doesn't necessarily mean someone has to believe everything they are taught, quite the contrary; it's more that you are supposed to take what you are taught and go further with it, your denial of Christianity as per philisophical complications would tend to signify your democratic taste for it as you take a step or two, even if in a maticulous fashion.
You see, it's like a "War" so to speak. When two sides are fighting it out, they are both involved in this "War", but while in it they certainly wouldn't consider themselves a part of the others evil, the same could even apply to our current debate, which I find entirely demeaning- no offense intended.
Specially with your wonderful christian avatar.